[Billfish]

So K are you saying Oleg got it right?

Well actually in that (though many other wrong...grrrrrrrrrr....) instance SaSQoN(sp?)...However it's not quite so cut and dry.......First off, I'm under the VERY clear impression it changed over the years, in kind Aotake which was NOT to be used in cockpits seems in some cases to of been or something similar....If you read up on this odd varnish of sorts, it covered a vast range of colors simply due to poor quality control.....In any case I have B&W photo's of untouched Ki-61 cockpits, and there is ABSOLUTLY no way they are that color (it much to light).

Could it of been?...eh...I doubt it. You don't want to make cockpits bright yet dark. More so Japanese paint and varnish was notorious for very radical color shifts due to the environment even just air let alone UV and such.....The sole example photo of that I believe from a Ki-100, and it very heavily shifted due to the elements........However as I said it heavily debated.

Yet the Blue varnish "believed" to be an early color result.......I'd buy it before I would yellow.

K2



Ki-61


Ki-45 for comparision